Hello fellow pirates and developers. Really enjoyed your game since day one and it’s come a long way! I loved the devils roar update originally with new area to explore. Tall tales are phenomenal but I really think we need a frozen wasteland or set of islands to explore with some new sea creatures to fight. Sea of thieves has had hints about the hydra and there are several cosmetics fit for the cold. Could you imagine ice covered ocean crawlers or a sea serpent ship battle. Cosmetics have really improved throughout the years including the ghost curse and skeleton curse. How about an ice covered skeleton cosmetic or even a red version of the legendary curse that’s basically dark adventurer with red eyes and Athena’s logo. Or, or, bear with me….. an Athena’s ship version of the burning blade, like a ship of the ancients that works like the burning blade but is a world event for the Athena’s where players can take control of the ship. I know this seems to be word vomit and just theoretically ideas in practice but we need new islands!!!! Thank you everyone to allow the rant
New area of the world map
@burnbacon both can be true :)
New islands / regions would be a nice expansion for the game, and the game should work bug free.
We got Devils Roar, it was fun for most players. After a few months, it became a empty zone.
Same will happen to "ice zone" :pBesides, Rare has said they can't expand anymore.....(Yet)
I could see them adding new areas that would be accessed through a dive or tall tale-like portal, but I doubt they are going to expand the surface area of the map. They'll just do infill like they have been doing (adding Sea Forts, Shrines/Treasuries, etc...).
The reason is that if the surface area increases too much, players get spread farther apart and the player-to-player encounter rate will dip below their target rate. You don't have the problems if you send players to a different map, since you can control merges and ship counts on that map independently to ensure there are always ships to encounter.
It might be harder to have a smaller area as a separate instance with more than one ship without it devolving into instantly getting attacked though. They could maybe make it a single ship instance, and just have you carry the loot back to the main map in order to sell.
